Boomer, but I will permit it.

I love this poem, and the acknowledgment that, in the end, it doesn't really matter. Touch grass. -- 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer. both Kaypro and Osborne computers use the CP/M operating system but can’t read each other’s handwriting for they format (write on) discs in different ways. the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but can’t use most programs produced for the IBM Personal Computer unless certain bits and bytes are altered but the wind still blows over Savannah and in the Spring the turkey buzzard struts and flounces before his hens. — Charles Bukowski

I don’t get a chance to wear tshirts out much, but when I do:

Some solid South Side yearbook action for you all.

A Chicago thing. If you know, you know. The Pope votes out of my diocese, by the way.

Still shocked by the surreal. Never thought I'd live to see a Yankee pope.

Just goes to show you: anything's possible at a conclave. I was 100% certain the old rules would apply here, and an American would be off the table. Pope Francis hated Americans, by the way. Amazing.

I simply cannot believe it. It's an American. From Chicago. Not more than a few miles from where I sit.

Well, that was quick. Here's to praying.

The most famous smokestack in the world.